The One Big Thing: Google Wave

If Google Wave takes off, it could profoundly alter the manner in which people communicate, collaborate and behave online. That means communications professionals will need to understand how this platform works and how people are using it.

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Internet Technology & Corporate Responsibility

A discussion hosted by the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley: Recent innovations in science and technology have provided human rights advocates, journalists, and scientists with new tools to expose war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and to disseminate this information in real time throughout the world.

The panel addresses issues of free speech and censorship, surveillance and privacy, human rights and law enforcement, the use and abuse of technology, and the effect it has on society at large.

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Newspapers vs. the Internet

In this animated editorial cartoon by Mark Fiore, a grumpy old newspaper berates a self-important laptop for ushering in a new era of news reporting.

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